The Importance Of Body Movement In Animation

“Many of the members of DreamWorks Animation creative team believe that this careful balancing act between sophistication and entertainment, reality and imagination, and epic-ness and humor sets Rise of the Guardians apart from anything else they are worked on the careers.” [ Zahed, Ramin. The art of DreamWorks Rise of the guardians, 2012]Those characters are their painstaking cares. I am interested in the relationship between their facial expressions and body movements of those characters. I will also study how the motion capture will work for an animation, as well as the importance of body language.

Facial expression

Facial expression, which is a kind of way of non-verbal communication, is strongly related to the emotion of the characters.

When people are shocked, they may jump, or use hands to cover their mouth with surprised look. In animation, when a character is very happy, he or she way laugh out and run around the place to show his or her emotions.

Body language-- Non-verbal communication

Facial expression and body movements can be included in body language. There are two kinds of communication. One is verbal communication, the other one is non-verbal communication. There are four types of non-verbal communication. They are eye contact, body position, gesture and movement. These four types of non-verbal communication are widely used in animation production. They are even more effective than words at sometimes.

Motion capture technology

Motion capture is the process of recording a live motion event and translating it into usable mathematical terms by tracking a number of key points in space over time and combining them to obtain a single three-dimensional representation of the performance. In the other world, this motion capture technology can translate a live performance to a digital motion. One thing should be mentioned is that the motion capture technology is the technology to collect the motion.[ Menache, Alberto. Understanding motion capture for computer animation and video games. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.] It refers to the recording of action of human and uses this information to build and animate digital person models in both two dimensional and

North(Santa), Sandy(Sandman), Toothiana(Tooth Fairy) and E. Aster Bunnymund(East Bunny) are the first four guardians in the start of the animation. All these guardians are immortal, powerful and agile. Their task is to do all they can to protect the innocence and imagination of all children, but an unlucky villain emerges called Pitch Black and he intends to snatch the children's hopes and dreams and erase the presence of the guardians. At this point, these favorite heroes need Jack Frost to help them, but this new guardian just likes to play with the snow,no interest to save the children and world. From the deepest concealment of the North Pole, the roof of Shanghai to the mini-town of New England, the guardians carried out a vast war in every corner of the world against villain Pitch Black . His goal is to spread fear everywhere to conquer the world, and the only thing that can stop him is the power to believe and the magic that the guardians have. North, Sandman, Tooth Fairy,East Bunny and Jack Frost finally come together to stop his evil plans. Eventually, they protect those children and their hopes and